Come join the fun on Wednesdays, starting September 22nd at 6:30 to 8PM.  We have clubs for preschoolers through 5th grade!    Remember that AWANA stands for Approved Workman Are Not Ashamed.  Learn life lessons and Biblical truths at AWANA this school year at Bloomfied Hills Baptist Church!

Join us every Sunday morning for VBS during our morning worship @ 10 AM. Our theme is SonWorld the Adventure Park.  There are crafts, games, great stories and snacks!!!

The year end camp out is scheduled for June 4-5!   We will leave from the church on Friday, June 4th and return back to the church on Saturday, June 5th.  We stay in one big cabin, and we'll eat by the campfire. Join us for loads of fun.

Join us weekly on Sunday evenings from 6:00-7:20 PM!  AWANA is a great way for our children to learn important life lessons about responsibility, helping others, Bible truths and teamwork.  We have clubber groups from Pre-school through 5th grade. We hope to see you there!

Each week there is a different station. First, we start out with Starlight Cinema, where the children view a movie on the story for the month and enjoy popcorn and big movie screen. The next Sunday they act out the story in Paradise Productions, and following that Sunday, they make a craft in Creation Station week. Finally, they play story-base games in Bible Quest. Join us every Sunday for exciting stories and interesting ways to learn more about God's Word.  SALT is every Sunday starting at 11:15AM, which is after the Worship Service and snack time. See you this Sunday! 

Our AWANA Grand Prix is scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2010, starting at 3:00 PM in the fellowship hall. Please, join us to watch the children race their cars. It will be loads of excitement. See you there!

I don’t pray in order to get answers. Sometimes I feel like I’m not very spiritual when people talk about prayer and I compare my prayer life to theirs. I will admit that I do not pray as I ought. I need to work on the discipline of prayer. But it seems to me that some people, in their prayer lives, treat God like a genie in a bottle and prayer like rubbing the bottle.
I think that, instead of praying because we know prayer is powerful and because we know God will answer, we ought to pray just because we know God hears us. Pray simply because God is attentive to us. Have you ever been disappointed by God? Have you ever felt like God does not hear your prayers? How would our prayer life be different if we really believed that God really hears?

I think that one of the most misunderstood of the commands of Jesus is this one: Do not judge (Matt. 7:1). You tell me: Is it judgmental to stand outside Joel Osteen’s church and preach against him? Check it out on YouTube. Is it judgmental to speak out against the legalization of gay marriage? To tell a friend that her sexual promiscuity is sinful and destructive? To confront a friend regarding his drinking? The command is clear: do not judge. To judge is God’s responsibility, not mine. If I do judge others, I will be judged. But what does it mean to judge?

Of all the stuff I own, my most prized possessions are probably my golf clubs, my car, my yard, and my laptop computer. If my house was on fire and my family and the cat were safely outside, and I still had time to run in once more, I would grab my laptop and the car keys. I would pull the car out of the garage thus saving both the car and my golf clubs which are always in my trunk. (Thinking about this reminds me of a few things I need to put in the fireproof safe!) I’ve got a lot of stuff and, even after saving the most important things, I would still be devastated to lose everything else. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus addresses our attachment to possessions. He issues a prohibition and a command: Do not store up treasure on earth, instead store up treasure in heaven (Matt. 6:19-20). Then He describes the reasons for the prohibition and command:

I’m not much into fasting. I get grouchy when I don’t eat (just ask my wife). I guess, with my high metabolism, my body doesn’t like being starved. But I have, a couple times in my life, fasted for a brief period of time. But neither of them really count for much. One of the times was when I was in elementary school – the children’s ministry at church had an all-boys over-night event at church and if we made it the entire night without eating we won a prize. It wasn't very hard because there wasn't any food there anyway. And the other time was a sort of assignment as part of a spiritual formation class in seminary. It was a good time of prayer and meditation, but I’m not sure I would have fasted if I weren’t required to. Obviously my experience with fasting is not authoritative or exemplary. But I wonder, is there any spiritual value to fasting? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says to His followers, “When you fast…” (Matt. 6:15). Jesus assumed that His followers were fasting. Is that a safe assumption? Do we fast? Should we fast?